Police

By Keith Lacey Thanks to a groundbreaking new program which kicked off just last week at the Sudbury Courthouse, mentally ill adults who fall into conflict with the law will get the help they need within days rather than languishing inside jail cells

People who have ?borrowed? supplies from Sudbury Regional Hospital have an opportunity to return them without any questions asked.

A railway company is facing four charges under the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a worker was injured working on the rail lines in Capreol Feb. 18, 2002.

Former Sudbury Catholic priest Donald Holmes will return to court April 17 to answer to two sexual assault charges stemming from alleged incidents in Sault Ste. Marie 15 years ago.

Last week?s front page story reporting the mess left behind by ice fishers on Green?s Lake has caused the owners of an ice hut some grief.

BY KEITH LACEY A Sudbury teenager who celebrated the fact he wasn?t going to jail for numerous property crimes by going on another crime spree will spend the next several months behind bars.

By Keith Lacey A Sudbury man who pleaded guilty to badly beating up another man in a hotel washroom last August is headed back to jail in April.

By Keith Lacey In a surprising development, the supervisor responsible for an oxygen shutdown which contributed to the death of a senior last year admitted he had been drinking before going to work.

Greater Sudbury Police are on the lookout for a 20-year old man wanted by Toronto authorities in connection with a homicide that occurred in that jurisdiction on or about Feb. 22.

By Keith Lacey A Sudbury woman who deliberately caused a $100,000 fire while heavily under the influence was spared a jail sentence Monday after court heard she has stopped drinking and taken major steps to turn her life around.